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† ˈpollage Obs.
Also 6 pollag.
[app. f. poll v. + -age, after pillage, etc.; but often associated with the exaction of poll-money.]
a. Extortion or legalized robbery.
b. Exaction of a poll-tax.
1538Bale Brefe Comedy in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) I. 206 A publicane I am, and moch do lyve by pollage. 1545Brinklow Compl. xxiii. (1874) 55 Some wil say yes, his tributys, and other pollagys, be taken from him. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 32 As though these pollages and pillages were not ill enough. 1894Pop. Sc. Monthly XLIV. 299 In Switzerland this pollage is still levied. |